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TIL Texas is removing Thomas Jefferson from their history books as a founding father in favor for John Calvin.

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OJAe TIL that the US aircrew that atom-bombed Nagasaki took a tour of the nuked city a month later and spoke to local Japanese …but kept who they were a secret.
X0jJX TIL The British project to develop atomic bombs, known as High Explosive Research (HER), was a civil project, not a military one. Staff were drawn from and recruited into the Civil Service, and were paid Civil Service salaries.
oA1L TIL only 64.4% of American law school graduates are employed at a job that requires a law degree and bar passage.
xZ0g Til the word “dude” first appeared in the 19th century to describe young men who were way too engrossed in the task of being fashionable
Wk0GN TIL It's ridiculously hard to get an accurate measurement of a coastline that all will agree on.